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Author Martin Ritter
Recipients Martin Ritter
Date 2017-11-03.15:01:31
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Hi,

I tried to use 

    subprocess.run(..., stdout=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=N)

to run some test scripts with a given timeout. 

This works as expected with simple scripts. However if the script itself creates other children which write to stdout then `subprocess.run()` seems to wait for all of the children to finish. I've attached a minimal example.

I looked into subprocess.py and `subprocess.run()` calls `process.communicate()` again without timeout when handling the TimeoutExpired exception which then in turn waits for the pipes to be closed by all children.

If communicate() would check if the process is still alive while waiting for output and close the pipes once the process has finished the timeout feature should work as expected and descendants would get a SIGPIPE when writing to stdout/stderr.
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